Non-Western Theories of International Relations: Conceptualizing World Regional Studies

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Challenges to the existing IR system and how they are seen in the IR literature in Western and non-Western segments of the world.- Chapter 2: From the hegemonic unipolar to the multipolar world: structural transformation of the international system and global strategic balance, plus its consequences for the future.- Chapter 3: Appraising the theory of non-Western IR and the other options available.- Chapter 4: What is missing in the Western IR theories: space as a core dimension in World Regional Studies.- Chapter 5: Transformation of the space (1): macro-regionalization and new spatial actors of international relations: international / world / global regions.- Chapter 6: Transformation of the space (2): differentiation within the world space and its consequences for conceptualizing a de-Westernized IR.- Chapter 7: Integration of the space in a complex glocality.- Chapter 8: Fusion of past and future in the space of global regions and regional sub-systems of converging multiple modernities.